Sentence examples for designed to overrule the from inspiring English sources

The Terry Schiavo right-to-die debacle of March 2005 in which prominent Republicans, including the president, conspired to pass a law specifically designed to overrule the Florida judges who had granted Schiavo's husband the right to remove her feeding tube marked the pinnacle of theocon influence.

The bill was designed to overrule the 1911 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Dr. Miles case (Dr. Miles v. John D. Park & Sons), in which the Court held that certain vertical resale price agreements substantially lessened competition as effectively as any horizontal agreement and were in violation of the Sherman Act.

They were designed to overrule a 1980 Supreme Court decision and make it clear that proof of discriminatory intent is not required to establish a violation of the voting rights of racial minorities.

Our panel decided to overrule the public.

But I always retain the right to overrule the vote.

The Supreme Court declined to overrule the Miranda decision.

Were we right to overrule the popular vote?

They're free to ask this Court to overrule the death penalty.

Justice Brandeis for himself and four other Justices, however, chose to overrule the early case.

The couple had asked the Supreme Court to overrule the Court of Appeal.

Uber France appealed the judgement and asked Europe's top court to overrule the decision.